The beauty of this piece, outside of its blatant intensity, is its latitude for interpretation. References to rope (suicide?) and stones (biblical capital punishment?) keep me wondering who has actually died, and is it physical or symbolic (emotional)? I think it speaks to the fact that each of us has an extraneous life that lives inside the people we love. We are extinguished in pieces by the loss of those people. Abandonment is the amputation of breath and pulse